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Saturday, March 17, 2012

RWANDA:A Question to Immaculee Ilibagiza and Pauline Kayitare

By Clare Umurungi

I have always admired how stonger both
ladies, Immaculee and Pauline came out of the tragedy that befelled
their respective families and their will to pass on the message of
forgiveness and courage to our generation. But I have a question to ask.

Pauline Kayitare was thirteen years old when the Tutsi genocide started in Rwanda. In her newly released book “Tu leur diras que tu es hutue“,
she recounts how, having lost her mother, her brothers and sisters, she
decided to desperately escape the killings by throwing herself into the
Lake Kivu. Instead a miracle occurs when her pursuers caught her into
their boat. Pauline told them she was a Hutu like them. The killers
believed her and released her in a nearby island. She later found her
father with whom she stayed in hiding in the island for three months. I
encourage anyone to read this very inspirational book.

I am a Rwandan woman, born of a Hutu and
a Tutsi parents. I lost family members in the hands of hutu militia
(interahamwe) during the genocide. Also other members of my family lost
their lives in the hands of Tutsi soldiers (Inkotanyi) right at the
start of the genocide and in the aftermath of the war.

Most of my loved ones killed by
Interahamwe have always been remembered and honored and justice has been
done for their deaths. In contrary, my family members who were killed
by Tutsi soldiers of RPF have never been honored. There have been other
tens of thousands of Hutus who were killed before, during and after the
genocide in Rwanda and outside of Rwanda. Rwandan community does not
talk openly about them nor is there a place or memorial symbol for their
remembrance. There have never been justice for the numerous crimes committed by Tutsi soldiers.

Do you ever take the opportunity to
acknowledge to your audience that, although your parents’ killers were
hutus, also ordinary Hutus people have suffered during the same period
you survived the genocide? Do you believe that there are thousands of
Hutus boys and girls, who were going through almost the same experience
as you and other many Tutsi did in 1994?

Immaculee Ilibagiza

The reason I am asking this question to you, Immaculee and Pauline,
is because I went through similar experience and I now share with many
the belief that it is fundamental that Rwandans learn to tell the whole
truth and accept the wrong that has been done to our people as a whole
so that we can achieve true forgiveness and true reconciliation.There are thousands of
Hutus boys and girls, who were going through almost the same experience
as you and other many Tutsi did in 1994.

As you advocate forgiveness and
reconciliation, remember there can never be genuine message of
“unconditional love and understanding” in the absence of acceptance of
fairness. I am not asking to turn yourselves into politicians nor to
judge anyone but let your message be complete.

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